Gordon, J.S.
Forgotten Fury: A long-ago calamity may shed light on a current impasse
Page: 35-36

Allen, L.
Comparing Notes With Lewis and Clark: A present-day adventurer canoes the Upper Missouri to find that time and fortune have crased signs of its later history, restoring the wilderness the Corps of Discovery penetrated nearly 200 years ago
Page: 42-51

Smoler, F.
Where Berlin and America Meet: Our common history isn't all pleasant, but seeing it firsthand is deeply moving
Page: 52-59

Murphy, C.; Haggerty, R.
Reinventing a River: Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution-and were poisoned by it. Thoreau believed the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America's rise to power
Page: 60-68

Banks, S.
Empire of the Winds: In the Aleutian Islands you can explore a landscape of violent beauty
Page: 69-77